Wisconsin Murders

Wisconsin Murders
Dust-jacket by Ronald Clyne for Wisconsin Murders
Author	August Derleth
Cover artist	Ronald Clyne
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	true crime
Publisher	Mycroft & Moran
Publication date	1968
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xi, 222 pp

Wisconsin Murders is a collection of true crime accounts written by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 1,958 copies. The stories detail sixteen cases of sudden death in Wisconsin for 1842 to 1926. Three of the accounts had appeared previously in American Weekly and Saint Mystery Magazine.

Wisconsin Murders contains the following accounts:

"Foreword"
"Caffee Was A Gallowsbird"
"An Affair in Council"
"A Jury of His Peers"
"A Way With the Ladies"
"Coincidence and Dr. Garner"
"The Tribulations of Sarah Ingersoll"
"A Rival to Xantippe"
"A Slight Case of Perjury"
"'Hell Hath No Fury...'"
"A Village Borgia"
"La Follette for the Prosecution"
"The Dog in the Night-Time"
"Dear Grace"
"Hart Gets His Man"
"Christmas Package"
"The Wolf at the Church Social"

References

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 90. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 845.
Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 182. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 153. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H.P. Lovecraft)

Science Fiction	Harrigan's File

Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders

Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More (editor) Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons

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Wisconsin Murders

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